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Mon 2007-09-17 10:50
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[personal profile] simontMon 2007-09-17 15:00
Hmm. Also, I'm now confused about whether "dysphoria" was the right word. By analogy with "gender dysphoria", I assumed you were using it to mean "confusion" or "uncertainty" or some such, and hence thought it was an exellent choice; but according to Wikipedia it actually means something more like "unhappiness" – it's the antonym of "euphoria". So the literal meaning of "gender dysphoria" is "unhappiness about gender", not "confusion about gender"; and really for the arse-elbow case one wants a word that specifically means confusion of some sort.

(Yes, I am bored, well spotted :-)
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[identity profile] feanelwa.livejournal.comMon 2007-09-17 15:14
The NHS are unhappy about their arses and elbows :( poor NHS. Yes, we want a different word to dysphoria, don't we...
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